We usually lost today because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEDo not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.
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We all of us live upon the past, and through the past we are destroyed.
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A word spoken is a terrible thing when it suddenly utters what the heart has long allowed.
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If any man wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts; and if any would write in a noble style, let him first possess a noble soul.
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Every situation–nay, every moment–is of infinite worth; for it is the representative of a whole eternity.
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There is no past we can bring back by longing for it. There is only an eternal now that builds and creates out of the past something new and better.
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Difficulties increase the nearer we get to the goal.
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For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him, he must regard himself as greater than he is.
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Every reader, if he has a strong mind, reads himself into the book, and amalgamates his thoughts with those of the author.
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There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings.
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Leap and the net will appear.
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A person hears only what they understand.
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I love those who yearn for the impossible.
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If I love you, what business is it of yours?
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The limits of my language are the limits of my universe.
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Every day I observe more and more the folly of judging of others by ourselves; and I have so much trouble with myself, and my own heart is in such constant agitation, that I am well content to let others pursue their own course, if they only allow me the same privilege.
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